On the modern Polish identity - confrontations

One way to analyse modern Polish society is through the spiritual foundations that shape it. These fundamentals are the subject of interest of many authors who, employing a variety of categories, touch upon issues which are important from their point of view, that provide a rationale and meaning for ongoing change. The aim of this article is the exploration of three characteristic visions of Polishness, followed by their confrontation in order to demonstrate to what extent they are coherent. The main idea here is to address the question whether Ewa Thompson’s notion of the postcolonial character of Poland is compatible with Ryszard Legutko’s concept which emphasises the crucial, for contemporary Poles, experience of disembedding. Agata Bielik-Robson’s opinion suggesting the illusory character of the Polish group and the complex relationship between the author’s diagnosis and the postcolonial narratives will be considered here, too